Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)

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Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)

Barrow and Furness (previously Barrow-in-Furness) is a constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

In the United Kingdom , each of the electoral areas or divisions called constituencies elects one or more members to a parliament or assembly....
represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislature in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories....
. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP)

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
by the first past the post system of election.

constituency contains the southern half of the Furness

Furness

Furness is a peninsula in south Cumbria, England. As a socio-cultural unit, it is more loosely defined. At its widest extent, it is considered to cover the whole of North Lonsdale, that part of the Lonsdale Hundred that is an exclave of the Historic counties of England of Lancashire, lying to the north of Morecambe Bay....
peninsula

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of Landform that is nearly surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus. Word origin: Latin paeninsula : paene, almost + insula, island....
, South Cumbria

Cumbria

Cumbria is a non-metropolitan county in the North West England of England. Cumbria came into existence as a county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
. This is in the north-west

North West England

North West England is one of the nine official regions of England. It has a population of 6,853,200 and comprises five counties of England ? Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, and Cheshire....
of England

England

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.

owing their review of parliamentary representation in Cumbria, the Boundary Commission for England has created a modified Barrow and Furness constituency, which takes the seat further north than currently into a lobster-claw shape taking Lake District areas to the north.

The newly shaped seat will be fought at the UK general election of 2009 or 2010, and is formed from the following electoral wards:

seat of Barrow & Furness, tucked away in the west of Cumbria

Cumbria

Lake District

The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a rural area in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes and its mountains , and its associations with the early 19th century poetry and writings of William Wordsworth and the Lake Poets....
, is the location for one of Britain

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
's most important industrial centres.

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Barrow and Furness (previously Barrow-in-Furness) is a constituency

United Kingdom constituencies

Parliament of the United Kingdom

Member of Parliament

Boundaries

This constituency contains the southern half of the Furness

Furness

Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of Landform that is nearly surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus. Word origin: Latin paeninsula : paene, almost + insula, island....
, South Cumbria

Cumbria

North West England

England

Boundary review

Following their review of parliamentary representation in Cumbria, the Boundary Commission for England has created a modified Barrow and Furness constituency, which takes the seat further north than currently into a lobster-claw shape taking Lake District areas to the north.

The newly shaped seat will be fought at the UK general election of 2009 or 2010, and is formed from the following electoral wards:

From South Lakeland
South Lakeland

South Lakeland is a Non-metropolitan district in Cumbria, England. Its council is based in Kendal. It includes much of the Lake District.The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972....
- Broughton, Crake Valley, Low Furness & Swarthmoor, Ulverston
Ulverston

Ulverston is a market town in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria in north-west England. Historic counties of England part of Lancashire, the town is located in the Furness area, close to the Lake District, and just north of Morecambe Bay....
Central, Ulverston East, Ulverston North, Ulverston South, Ulverston Town and Ulverston West
The entire district of Barrow-in-Furness
Barrow-in-Furness (borough)

Barrow-in-Furness is a Non-metropolitan district with borough status in the United Kingdom in Cumbria, England. It is named after its main town, Barrow-in-Furness....

History

The seat of Barrow & Furness, tucked away in the west of Cumbria

Cumbria

Lake District

United Kingdom

Constituency

A constituency is any cohesive body of people bound by shared identity, goals, or loyalty. Constituency can be used to describe a business's customer base and shareholders, or a charity's donors or those it serves....
, Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness

Barrow-in-Furness , often known simply as Barrow, is an manufacturing and seaport which forms about half the territory of the wider Barrow-in-Furness in the county of Cumbria, England....
, grew on the back of the ship building industry and is now the site of the BAE Systems

BAE Systems

BAE Systems plc is a British defense contractor and aerospace company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire, Hampshire, England, that has global interests, particularly in North America through its subsidiary BAE Systems Inc....
nuclear submarine

Nuclear submarine

A nuclear submarine is a submarine powered by nuclear reactor technology, as opposed to a more conventional submarine layout consisting of air-breathing diesel engine which are used to charge batteries for underwater running....
and ship building operation. This reliance on a single industry associated with controversial defence policies has, in the past, proved politically volatile in a constituency the Labour Party would consider its own backyard. Labour Cabinet

Cabinet of the United Kingdom

In the politics of the United Kingdom, the Cabinet is a formal body composed of the most senior Her Majesty's Governmentminister chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom....
member Albert Booth

Albert Booth

Albert Edward Booth is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician.Booth was educated at Marine School, South Shields and Northumbria University ....
represented Barrow from 1966 but suffered a shock defeat in 1983. Many put this down to widespread fears of job losses because the Labour Party was then signed up to doing away with all its nuclear

Nuclear reaction

In nuclear physics, a nuclear reaction is the process in which two atomic nucleus or subatomic particles collide to produce products different from the initial particles....
capabilities including the submarines. The Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
through the eighties was a Manchester lawyer, Cecil Franks

Cecil Franks

Cecil Simon Franks is a solicitor from Manchester, United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness from the United Kingdom general election, 1983 until the United Kingdom general election, 1992....
.

As Labour moved back towards the retention of Britain's nuclear capability and following massive job losses in the town's ship building industry, Labour's fortunes revived in Barrow. John Hutton took the seat back for Labour in 1992 and has retained it ever since. In 2001 he had the support of more than half of all those who voted. There are other industries in the constituency including engineering and chemicals and more than a quarter of all jobs are in manufacturing

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the use of machine, tool and labor to make things for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to Industry production, in which raw material are transformed into finished good on a large scale....
. Surrounding this industrial mass is some wild and beautiful countryside, a sweeping mix of moors

Moors

In the Spanish language, the term for Moors is Moro; in Portuguese language the word is mouro. There seems to have been some confusion about the relationship of the word moro/mouro to the word moreno , both from Greek language ma?ros, i.e....
, hill

Hill

A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain, in a limited area. Hills often have a distinct Summit , although in areas with Escarpment a hill may refer to a particular section of scarp slope without a well-defined summit ....
s, peaks

Mountain

A mountain is a landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area usually in the form of a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill....
and coast

Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
, including the towns of Ulverston

Ulverston

Ulverston is a market town in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria in north-west England. Historic counties of England part of Lancashire, the town is located in the Furness area, close to the Lake District, and just north of Morecambe Bay....
and Dalton-in-Furness

Dalton-in-Furness

Dalton-in-Furness is a small town of approximately 11,000 people north-east of Barrow-in-Furness, in Cumbria, England. Historically, it was the capital of Furness....
.

Members of Parliament

The current MP

Member of Parliament

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
, a former lecturer. He took the seat from Cecil Franks

Cecil Franks

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
in the 1992 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1992

The United Kingdom general election of 1992 was held on 9 April 1992, and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party .John Major had won the Conservative Party leadership election, 1990 in November 1990 succeeding the outgoing PM Margaret Thatcher....
. Since 27 July 2007 he has been the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. He has also held the cabinet posts of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is a post in the UK cabinet, responsible for the Department for Work and Pensions. It was created on 8 June 2001 by the merger of the Employment part of the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Social Security....
and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a sinecure office in the government of the United Kingdom....
.

Previous MPs were:

Election		Member	Party
	1885 United Kingdom general election, 1885 The 1885 UK general election was from 24 November to 18 December 1885. This was the first general election after an Representation of the People Act 1884 and Redistribution of Seats Act 1885....	David Duncan David Duncan (UK politician) David Duncan was a British merchant and shipper and a Liberal Party politician who briefly represented the seat of Barrow-in-Furness .Duncan was born at Aylth, Angus, the fourth son of James Duncan, a manufacturer and merchant, and was educated at Dundee High School....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
	1886 United Kingdom general election, 1886 The 1886 UK general election took place from 1–27 July 1886. It resulted in a major reversal of the results of the United Kingdom general election, 1885 as the Conservative Party , led by Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury in an electoral pact with the breakaway Unionist wing of the Liberals -...	William Sproston Caine William Sproston Caine William Sproston Caine was a British politician and Temperance movement advocate.Caine was born at Seacombe, Cheshire, and was the eldest surviving son of Nathaniel Caine, a metal merchant from Cheshire, and was educated at private schools in Egremont, Merseyside and Birkenhead before entering his father's business in 1861....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
	1886		Liberal Unionist
	1890	James Duncan James Duncan (politician) James Archibald Duncan was a British lawyer a Liberal Party politicianwho briefly represented the seat of Barrow-in-Furness .Duncan was born in Valparaiso, the son of the shipper David Duncan and his wife Catherine Williamson....	Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the early 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become known as the Liberal Democrats....
	1892 United Kingdom general election, 1892 The 1892 UK general election was held from 4 July ? 26 July 1892. It saw the Conservatives, led by Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, win the greatest number of seats, but not enough for an overall majority as William Gladstone's Liberals won many more seats than in the United Kingdom general election, 1886....	Sir Charles Cayzer, Bt	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
	1906 United Kingdom general election, 1906 The United Kingdom general election of 1906 was held from 12 January to 8 February 1906.The Liberal Party , led by sitting minority Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won a large majority in the election....	Charles Duncan	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
	1918 United Kingdom general election, 1918 The United Kingdom general election of 1918 was the first to be held after the Representation of the People Act 1918, which meant it was the first United Kingdom general election in which women could vote....	Robert Chadwick Robert Burton-Chadwick Sir Robert Burton-Chadwick, 1st Baronet was a shipping magnate and an English Conservative Party politician.Chadwick was born at Oxton, Merseyside, Cheshire, the son of Joseph Chadwick and Norah Irene Gibbs, being baptised with the name of Robert Chadwick....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
	1922 United Kingdom general election, 1922 The UK general election of 1922 was held on 15 November 1922. It was the first election held after most of the Irish counties left the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State, and was won by Andrew Bonar Law's Conservative Party , who gained an overall majority over Labour Party , led by John Robert Clynes and a divided Liberal Party ....	Daniel Somerville	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
	1924 United Kingdom general election, 1924 The 1924 UK general election was held on 29 October 1924. The Conservative Party , led by Stanley Baldwin performed dramatically better, in electoral terms, than in the United Kingdom general election, 1923 and obtained a large parliamentary majority....	John Bromley	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
	1931 United Kingdom general election, 1931 The UK general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday. It was also the last election, and the only one under universal suffrage, where one party received an absolute majority of the votes cast....	Sir Jonah Walker-Smith	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
	1945 United Kingdom general election, 1945 The United Kingdom General Election of 1945 was a United Kingdom general election held on 5 July 1945, with delayed polls taking place on 12 July and in Nelson and Colne on 19 July....	Walter Monslow Walter Monslow, Baron Monslow Walter Monslow, Baron Monslow was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.Born in Wrexham, Monslow was elected at United Kingdom general election, 1945 as Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness , and held the seat until he retired from the British House of Commons at the United Kingdom general election, 1966....	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
	1966 United Kingdom general election, 1966 The 1966 UK general election on 31 March 1966 was called by sitting Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Wilson's decision to call an election turned on the fact that his government, elected only two years previously in United Kingdom general election, 1964 had an unworkable small majority of only 4 MPs....	Albert Booth Albert Booth Albert Edward Booth is a United Kingdom Labour Party politician.Booth was educated at Marine School, South Shields and Northumbria University ....	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 The 1983 UK general election was held on 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since United Kingdom general election, 1945....		Constituency renamed "Barrow and Furness"
	1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 The 1983 UK general election was held on 9 June 1983. It gave the Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher the most decisive election victory since United Kingdom general election, 1945....	Cecil Franks Cecil Franks Cecil Simon Franks is a solicitor from Manchester, United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Barrow and Furness from the United Kingdom general election, 1983 until the United Kingdom general election, 1992....	Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
	1992 United Kingdom general election, 1992 The United Kingdom general election of 1992 was held on 9 April 1992, and was the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party .John Major had won the Conservative Party leadership election, 1990 in November 1990 succeeding the outgoing PM Margaret Thatcher....	John Hutton	Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....

Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)

Boundaries

Boundary review

History

Members of Parliament

Election results

See also